Star Wars: The Last Jedi Looks Awesome As A 16-Bit Game

 If you’ve seen Star Wars: The Last Jedi and you can’t get enough of it, there’s a new 16-bit recreation of the movie’s ending. But if you still haven’t seen it. SPOILER ALERT! — January 29, 2018 If you are obsessed with it, like us, then you should definitely check out William Usher’s article explaining why this five-minute clip recounting the

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Game Music Town composer Andrew Napier wins 2017 Scorbit’s Video Game Scoring Contest

For the second consecutive year, Scorbit, one of the biggest communities for game composers and sound designers around the world, hosted its Video Game scoring Contest. — December 15, 2017 Contestants had to create a 30-second piece of music in the form of a seamless loop, broken into three different layers so that when three layers are played simultaneously, the

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A Video Game Music Composer’s Resource Guide

We wanted to share with you a guide to understanding music in VR written by Winnifred Phillips, award-winning composer with more than 13 years of experience in the game industry and a long list of video game credits that include titles from five of the most prominent franchises in gaming: Assassin’s Creed, LittleBigPlanet, Total War, God of War, and The Sims. —

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Hottest New Collectible: Video Game Soundtracks On Vinyl

A misconception exists among non-gamers that video game music is trivial by design. But, certainly, this is not the case for playback on a hi-fi home stereo. — November 13, 2017 It’s a myth that the game-centric production company and record label iam8bit is committed to beating. “We get a lot of questions about game music being ‘real’ music,” says

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David Wise on Making the Music for Nintendo´s Golden Age

“We were pioneers at the time,” says David Wise, casting his mind back to the exuberant Nintendo video game era of the late ’80s and early ’90s. — November 10, 2017 “We always tried to stretch the boundaries, whether it was graphics or gameplay. [Those games] made a lasting impression.” Over a career that has spanned four decades to date, Wise has established

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